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Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley, Gisele Kapterian.

Warren Mundine loses teal target seat preselection as Liberals pick tech executive

The race in Bradfield shaped up as a test of the right-wing establishment’s influence in Liberal branches of the blue-ribbon territory.

  • Paul Sakkal

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John Howard (centre) understood the need for a Liberal “broad church”. Departing, departed and sidelined liberals of the party: Simon Birmingham and Paul Fletcher (left); Julie Bishop, Christopher Pyne and Julian Leeser.

Liberals’ ‘broad church’ has become a pervasive sect

Behind the Liberal banner, reasonableness has been steadily squeezed out and, with supreme irony, the breadth of its ranks has been shrivelled to exclude moderation, pragmatism, compromise and tolerance.

Howard surrounded by liberal Liberals

Where have all the liberal Libs gone? This is Dutton’s cue to learn from Howard

The Liberal Party, said John Howard, was a “broad church”, at its best when it embraced both its conservative and liberal traditions.

  • George Brandis
The winner’s circle: Liberal moderates were a powerhouse during the Turnbull government.

Liberal moderates were in the ‘winner’s circle’ under Turnbull. It’s a different story now

In 2019, there were about 22 members in the group that champions socially progressive causes. Now there are just 12 committed to staying on past the next election.

  • James Massola
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Voters laboring under gutless government

Ross Gittins may well bemoan the “era of gutless government”, but perhaps he should direct his criticism to the people responsible, the electors of Australia.

Liberal MP Paul Fletcher is resigning.

Second leading Liberal moderate quits, saying a woman should get his seat

Former minister Paul Fletcher insisted his departure had nothing to do with the threat he faces from teal independent Nicolette Boele.

  • Paul Sakkal, Max Maddison, James Massola and Penry Buckley
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‘Antisemitism’ accusation says a lot about Netanyahu

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported assertion that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism” is an unacceptable attempt at moral diversion.

Kylea Tink will not stand in the lower house at the next election.

‘Like a child throwing toys from his cot’: Kylea Tink lashes Liberal MP

Kylea Tink, whose seat was recently abolished, says criticism by Bradfield MP Paul Fletcher shows how the party misunderstands the teal movement.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Hunter Biden after pleading guilty to federal tax charges in September.

Presidential pardon melds fatherly care and hypocrisy

Perhaps if President Biden had confidence that the administration of justice under incoming President Donald Trump would be fair and rational, he might have felt able to withhold this pardon.

Paul Fletcher MP

If the Libs offered more pros, there might be no ‘con job’

I voted for Nicolette Boele in the last federal election not because Paul Fletcher was part of one of the worst governments ever inflicted upon this country, but apparently because I am such a stupid woman I had no idea what I was doing.

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